"While removing search results is inconsistent with Google's mission, providing no information (or a heavily degraded user experience that amounts to no information) is more inconsistent with our mission," a [Google] statement said.
BBC News
Google tried to claim the amount of information censored would be was less than two percent of Chinese news sources and, "On balance we believe that having a service with links that work and omits a fractional number is better than having a service that is not available at all."
P2PNet
Google.com is censored (and now blocked) in the PRC by the PRC, Google.cn is censored by Google. What's the difference? Google is providing Chinese users with a degraded experience better than nothing? Google.com from Mainland China used to give you the same thing as Google.cn gives you now. Crap information better than no information? Depends what you're looking for.
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